Hotel Gran Palace
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The Hotel Gran Palace looms like a forgotten sentinel above the crashing Pacific waves, its once-splendid facade now a weathered mask of cracked paint and shadowed alcoves. Guests wander its echoing hallways, the whispers of the past swirling in the stale air, only to catch fleeting glimpses of translucent figures slipping behind closed doors, their mournful sighs mingling with the sea breeze. In the solitude of their rooms, visitors speak of an unsettling presence-an unseen watcher that beckons from the corners of their eyes, a chill that coils around their throats like a noose, tightening with every tick of the ancient clock.